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Politicians Jacinta Allan, Julia Gillard and Pauline Hanson have had very different experiences of sexism.

The misogyny coin buys less than it used to

Allegations of sexism no longer spark political movements. Voters’ focus is on something else.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness

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Blue-eyed grievance zombies: One Nation according to recent polls is the most popular party in Victoria.

In a normal election, Jacinta Allan would be gone. These are not normal times

Now that Pauline Hanson’s army of the dead is on the march, Labor MPs need to stop plotting against their own queen and prepare for the battle to come.

  • Chip Le Grand
Sydney Road in Brunswick on Wednesday.

Secret departmental plan for radical expansion of suburban high-rise push

There are currently 60 high-rise activity centres. A secret plan drawn up by a state government department calls for 150 more.

  • Daniella White
Premier Jacinta Allan is under renewed pressure over the handling of the Big Build.

‘A pox on all of them’: Former IBAC chief slams major parties over integrity

Former IBAC commissioners Stephen O’Bryan and Robert Redlich have been calling for greater powers since the early years of the anti-corruption agency. They remain frustrated by the lack of political action.

  • Chip Le Grand
Operation Richmond centred on dealings between the Andrews government and the United Firefighters Union.

Mystery challenge to Andrews-era corruption report revives calls for law changes

IBAC has agreed to shelve its long-awaited report into the Andrews government’s dealings with the United Firefighters Union until the latest legal challenge is resolved.

  • Chip Le Grand
The Age’s digital mock-up of the proposed statue of former premier Daniel Andrews.

A Daniel Andrews statue – or just a dead cat?

Be outraged, if you must, at this decision. Just know that this is precisely what the government wants you to feel.

  • Chip Le Grand
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Retiring debt like its the 1990s– cast of Melrose Place.

By promising to fix Victoria’s budget, Jess Wilson has put a big target on her back

Debt reduction is an idea so 1990s it could have been lifted from an episode of Melrose Place. Can Jess Wilson get Victorians excited about balancing the books?

  • Chip Le Grand
OG: Daniel Andrews with his first cabinet in December 2014.

What’s old can be new again in politics. Just ask Jacinta Allan ... and Goethe

New solutions is a buzz phrase littered through Jacinta Allan’s public statements. London to a brick says it will be Labor’s campaign slogan in November.

  • Chip Le Grand
The first cabinet meeting of the Andrews government in 2014. (Colour digitally altered)

From ‘no extra cost’ to record debt: The 12-year transformation of Victorian Labor

Eight hundred pages of confidential state cabinet documents reveal how a disciplined new Labor government in 2014 evolved into a “crash through” administration – until it struck the unexpected.

  • Royce Millar
Native forest logging was banned in Victoria on January 1, 2024.

Confidential files reveal logging ban push ignored by the Andrews government

Shortly after Daniel Andrews came to power in 2014, his government received a stark warning about the environmental and economic consequences of native forest logging.

  • Royce Millar